Wolverine forces Colossus to deal with his recent self esteem problems; Xavier attends Lilandra's coronation; Jean meets Jason for the first time; Storm visits her old home to find it is a drug hangout; Wolvie sees Mariko in New York; Cyclops goes on a date with Colleen; Arcade conspires with Tom and Juggernaut to kill the X-Men.

Moira tests Jean's Phoenix powers; Jean begins having hallucinations thanks to Mastermind; Moira discovers that Proteus has escaped; Beast finds out the X-Men are alive and lets them know that Moira needs their help on Muir Isle.

Indexer Notes

This issue is the first to reveal Magneto as the father of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. Popeye and the Phantom Stranger appear in the background of page 16, panel 5, added by inker Terry Austin. A few characters from the Claremont/Byrne/Austin Starlord book appear in panel 6. These notes added 2005 by Steven Tice.

The X-Men return to the states, but Banshee stays in Scotland with Moira; Upon entering the mansion, the X-Men find Xavier is back and ready to lead the team again; Prof X identifies a new mutant and the X-Men go to recruit her; The Hellfire Club also tries to woo the young Kitty Pryde into their ranks.

Kitty helps four of the X-Men escape from Emma Frost. Scott and Jean try to beat the Hellfire Club to recruiting Dazzler, the first mutant of the disco era. Jean's Mastermind-induced mind trips continue.

Kitty leads Scott, Jean and Kurt to where the White Queen is holding the rest of the team. Phoenix manifests astounding power in confronting the White Queen. Xavier offers a place to the two new mutants on his team-- Dazzler turns him down but Kitty joins.

The X-Men seek out Angel's advice on how to deal with the Hellfire Club as he is a member; The X-Men infiltrate the Club and are beaten by the inner circle; Mastermind works his final mojo on Jean Grey and she becomes the Black Queen of the Hellfire Club; Wolverine is the only X-Man left to mount a rescue.

Dark Phoenix returns to Earth to face the X-Men and her old life; After a pitched battle with her former teammates, Jean is restored to her right mind after a furious assault by Xavier; As the team is celebrating the purging of the Phoenix force, they vanish into thin air.

Lilandra transports the X-Men to her base so that Phoenix can be killed for her crime of wiping out an entire star system; Xavier explains that the Phoenix Force has been purged from Jean and demands the right to trial by combat when his captors refuse to listen; The X-Men and the Imperial Guard fight on the Blue Area of the Moon to determine Jean's fate; During the battle, Dark Phoenix manifests herself once again and Jean sacrifices herself rather than let the Phoenix loose on the universe.

Indexer Notes

As is now known, Phoenix and Jean Grey were never one and the same as revealed in Jean's resurrection in Avengers #263 and Fantastic Four #286; In the original story, Jean Grey didn't die and the story with the original ending is printed in Phoenix: The Untold Story #1

Rachel Summers sends Kitty Pryde back in time from 2013 to warn the X-Men that the new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants will try to kill Senator Kelly and begin a chain of events that spells doom for mutants.

The Brotherhood makes its play against Senator Kelly; Kitty's future self, which is in possession of her present body, helps the X-Men defeat Mystique and her crew (thus changing the future); As soon as Kelly is saved, Kitty's psyche returns from the future to her own body; A month later, in response to the attack, Kelly puts Gyrich in charge of a top secret Sentinel program called "Project Wideawake.".